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Baby in a liquor store?

MaebbMaebb member
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There's a liquor/convenience store by our house, and I sometimes stop by on the way home from work or wherever to buy alcohol or a lottery ticket or something like that. Klassy. DS is with me, so I take him in. Is this frowned upon? Should I take him home to stay with DH and then go back out to the store by myself? Sometimes I also walk and take him in the stroller. I feel like people are probably judging me, but I just wanted to see what parenting thinks. Is it inappropriate to bring a child in a liquor store?
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  • ShelovesagingerShelovesaginger member

    How old is he? I think that It's ok because it's not like you're buying it for him, it would just be a pain in the ass to drop him off at home and then go back to the liquor store. Screw what other people think.

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    He's 16 months. Ok, good - it's more convenient to just take him in. My parents and DH's parents are very conservative and would clutch their pearls at the idea of us going into a liquor store, let alone taking a baby in there. I think their concern is that it might make him grow up to be an alcoholic or something. MIL also thinks DS might "catch the geigh" by sleeping on pink bed sheets, so she's not exactly a pillar of being reasonable or rational.
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  • secretsoutsecretsout member
    I don't see the issue. I have been to liquor stores in Delaware that don't allow anyone under 21 in, period, not even a baby.


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  • taggiecbtaggiecb member
    The liquor store here is a liquor store/convenience store/only gas station in town.  Everyone is in the liquor store. 

     It's not like you are cracking a beer as soon as it's purchased.  And if someone else cares what you do with it when you get it home, that's their problem.
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  • persephonerosepersephonerose member
    @Maebb Sometimes when you make these posts about your DH, IL's, and family I wonder what you were thinking when you married into that family.  Sometimes I have to pretend that they have some really nice qualities, so that I don't wonder if you are just as crazy. 
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  • taggiecbtaggiecb member
    Being conservative has nothing to do with refusing to go into a liquor store.  Not in 2014 anyway.  
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  • MaebbMaebb member
    @persephonerose, my ILs and my parents are extremely similar in terms of thinking. My parents usually (thankfully) keep their opinions to themselves, but they still have them.

    My ILs are mostly nice, loving people. We don't see eye to eye on things like guns, gay marriage, alcohol, recycling, etc., but I do love them. I love DH, and he and I both have formed our own views on things rather than our parents' ways of thinking. Sometimes I just like throwing ideas out there to see what other people think because I'm not sure if I'm the crazy one or my parents and ILs.
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  • theimpossibleastronauttheimpossibleastronaut member
    Going into a liquor store as a kid turns you into an alcoholic? Um, no. Your parents/ILs are the crazy ones there if that's what they believe.
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  • Xtine22Xtine22 member
    DH and DD go out to a restaurant around the block from us onThursdays while I work, to watch sports. There is a liquor store right next door. The will sometimes go to pick up beer after wards. A couple weeks ago DH was just going to go home because we already had beer at home but DD insisted that they go walk around first.

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  • winecastle14winecastle14 member
    The only thing that has stopped me from taking O into a liquor store lately is that I'm worried she'd knock over all the bottles. I give no fucks if someone doesn't like her being in there. I used to take her all the time. 

    There were a few people who gave me weird looks for buying liquor when I was pregnant. I guess they think I shouldn't be able to provide liquor for house guests (or DH) when pregnant. I MUST be drinking it all, I must. Moral of the story- who cares what people think. They don't know your lyfeee.
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  • MaebbMaebb member
    @laceyjean1‌, maybe I should have said "Southern Baptist" instead of "conservative." There's a joke "What's the difference between seeing a Baptist and a Methodist in a liquor store?" Answer - the Methodist will say hi to you. This may be 2014, but my parents, ILs, and many other people here think that it's unclassy and shameful to go in a liquor store.
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  • persephonerosepersephonerose member
    @Maebb this is how you tell who is crazy. If they say something and you get a blank stunned into silence expression then blink a few times you know whoever is talking is the crazy bitch. See gif below for an example of the WTF are you smoking expression.

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  • MaebbMaebb member
    lisajay09 said:

    Maebb said:

    @laceyjean1‌, maybe I should have said "Southern Baptist" instead of "conservative." There's a joke "What's the difference between seeing a Baptist and a Methodist in a liquor store?" Answer - the Methodist will say hi to you. This may be 2014, but my parents, ILs, and many other people here think that it's unclassy and shameful to go in a liquor store.

    I get that. My mom cringes when she sees a woman with a beer bottle/can. She'll always make a comment after like, "couldn't she pour it in a glass?". It's annoying.
    Sounds like my mom and MIL. Usually I just get an amber beer or mixed drink, pour it into a glass, and pretend it's tea. :)
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  • thetheisensthetheisens member
    I'm just glad my liquor store has a drive thru window, not because I wouldn't take him in, but it makes things so much easier. I would side eye if you went in a liquor store and left your kid in the car(actually more than side eye you), but no fucks are given about taking kids in. I know it is illegal in some states to take kids in, Illinois maybe?
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  • colliebabecolliebabe member
    I think @thetheisens‌ is right, some states don't allow it at all.

    Ours does, and I bring DD in with me whenever I need to (alcohol is not sold anywhere else here.)

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  • Xtine22Xtine22 member
    I also got my first dog in a liquor store when I was 4 because I went in with my parents and they were selling puppies and begged my parents or one.

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  • RayRay007RayRay007 member
    edited March 2014
    I've taken DD in plenty of times. The only issue now that she's walking and on an independent streak Is that I have to make sure she doesn't knock things over. The staff there love to talk to her.

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  • TheBubTheBub member
    I'm in IN. When DD was still in an infant seat, I took her into a liquor store to buy my dad koozies for Father's Day. They told me that NO ONE under 21 was allowed inside the store and made me leave immediately. I was a little ticked, but I understood.

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  • insertclevernameinsertclevername member
    thetheisens said:

    I'm just glad my liquor store has a drive thru window, not because I wouldn't take him in, but it makes things so much easier. I would side eye if you went in a liquor store and left your kid in the car(actually more than side eye you), but no fucks are given about taking kids in. I know it is illegal in some states to take kids in, Illinois maybe?

    I am jealous of your drive through liquor store. The liquor and wine store near us did just start doing deliveries. You can order online and pick a delivery time.
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  • algalphysalgalphys member
    ND is NO ONE at all under 21 too. I'm actually from canada (but we spend a lot if time in ND) and we can bring the kids into the liquor store here.
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    That liquor-delivering drone is sounding like a better idea every day.
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  • BluepointToastedBluepointToasted member
    I plan on bringing ds wine tasting when we are on vacay. No good?
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  • pandaglitterpandaglitter member
    I bring my kids in to see my mom who manages a liquor store from time to time. As long as the kids aren't terrorizing it's okay here. When they get older they can still come, but can't help you carry alcohol and you can't ask them to help you choose things haha. Which I would do, but not so she could have any. More like "ugh should I get this flavor vodka or this one?" She's much more decisive than me about my life choices.
     
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  • Kissimi21Kissimi21 member
    If my big-ass stroller fit through the doors, I wouldn't think twice about taking my kids into the liquor store.  Actually, the time I tried and realized it didn't fit, a couple of women offered to go in and pick up my booze for me. 

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    BluepointToasted said:

    I plan on bringing ds wine tasting when we are on vacay. No good?

    All good! We did this in the Finger Lakes. DH pulled DD out of the stroller to get closer to the counter and it tipped over because the diaper bag was hanging on the back. We may have appeared...uh, uncoordinated, but no one paid any mind.
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